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Sorry to bring current events here, but my usual way of bringing retro comfort in stressful situations is to have a Twitter feed running on my C64. The tweets are clearly coming from the 80s so it's not that bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-BQVx2zbM lobsterminator has a new favorite as of 11:30 on Feb 24, 2022 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:
I have too many XBoxes... and I just got another. And have 3 enroute from Japan.
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Feb 24, 2022 12:57
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My buddy had one for his old astro van. It actually works really well lol
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Feb 24, 2022 19:17
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lobsterminator posted:Sorry to bring current events here, but my usual way of bringing retro comfort in stressful situations is to have a Twitter feed running on my C64. The tweets are clearly coming from the 80s so it's not that bad. Is this BitlBee? Currently trying to get a Windows 98 machine online with something retro-y in addition to Browservice, so I've been looking for options.
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Feb 24, 2022 19:23
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Casimir Radon posted:I used a cassette adapter until 2016 or so when the tape deck in my car broke and I had a new stereo head out in. Then I got a new car in ‘19 and Toyota was on the verge of putting Android Auto in cars, but never went back and did my model year. Which made me switch to iPhone last year to get back the level of functionality I had with my aftermarket stereo head in a 2003 car. This is why the greatest thing a carmaker can offer is a good ol' DIN/Double DIN slot. Their own offerings are either overpriced, terrible, or rapidly outdated (no AUX, Bluetooth but only for calls, never updated satnav maps, etc etc). The new Citroen Ami coming with nothing but a phone holder is amazingly appealing.
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Feb 24, 2022 20:04
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They make those android car radios with face plates for a fair number of different vehicles but I doubt you can fit them to modern cars with screens all over the dashboard and no dedicated car stereo. It made an awesome upgrade for my 2010 golf with canbus integration, bluetooth handsfree, carplay, reverse camera and wide choice of GPS navigation apps.  
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Feb 24, 2022 20:14
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r u ready to WALK posted:They make those android car radios with face plates for a fair number of different vehicles but I doubt you can fit them to modern cars with screens all over the dashboard and no dedicated car stereo. What model is that? I've never heard of one with canbus integration, is that connecting to your ODB2 port so you can get telemetry?
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Feb 24, 2022 20:25
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I got a bluetooth dongle hooked up to the obd2 port so i can have a big dumb turbo boost gauge in the dashboard with the Torque app but it's kinda unreliable, the canbus integration works a lot better and is built into the android image but doesn't give you all the fun engine stats that obd2 does. Unfortunately my car has a plain steering wheel without buttons so I lose out on the best reason to have canbus support in the first place 
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Feb 24, 2022 21:04
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Your car company should be forcibly shut down if you make cars without CarPlay in tyool 2022
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Feb 25, 2022 03:56
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I had one of these that I plugged into a Sony Discman for listening to CDs in the car. 1991 or 1992
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Feb 25, 2022 04:44
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r u ready to WALK posted:They make those android car radios with face plates for a fair number of different vehicles but I doubt you can fit them to modern cars with screens all over the dashboard and no dedicated car stereo. With my car is really sucked cos the standard infotainment also has the HVAC controls. AerPro do a module specific enough for me luckily, and I could put any Double DIN slot stereo I wanted: 
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Feb 25, 2022 09:27
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Kazy posted:Is this BitlBee? Currently trying to get a Windows 98 machine online with something retro-y in addition to Browservice, so I've been looking for options. It's a custom made simple Twitter app with Node.js which I run over telnet. I tailored the layout and colors to work nicely on the C64 screen.
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Feb 25, 2022 10:50
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lobsterminator posted:It's a custom made simple Twitter app with Node.js which I run over telnet. I tailored the layout and colors to work nicely on the C64 screen. ....you don't happen to have a github or something you might share with the rest of the class? (No pressure if you don't - I know I've done projects where the end product was fine but essentially irreproducible, or any one of a million other reasons you might not wish to make it public).
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Your car company should be forcibly shut down if you make cars without CarPlay in tyool 2022 My wife has been driving her new car for six months and never realized it had Android Auto until I tried it
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:My wife has been driving her new car for six months and never realized it had Android Auto until I tried it My parents have had a car with CarPlay in it for two years, and just spent literal hours of their life getting the lovely onboard nav updated with maps more recent than 2018, including buying a USB drive with the updates on them because the car refused to stay connected to their Wifi to do an OTA update. They know they have CarPlay. They just don’t like it because…I don’t know, they were exposed to leaded gasoline as children or something? I’m not really sure why all car infotainment systems have to be eye-searing, unstable, unresponsive garbage fires, but they seem to be a rake auto manufacturers are more than happy to step on.
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Feb 26, 2022 00:57
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I’ve never met an in car navigation system I haven’t absolutely despised. CarPlay was so high on my list of needs when I bought it isn’t funny.
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Yup, best thing I did for my 2009 Subaru Forester was replace the infotainment system. It was a real rabbit warren of spaghetti, the factory reversing camera needed a 12V -> 6V converter, and I can't get any vehicle stats on fuel consumption etc, but at least now I'm not stuck with maps from 2009 and a CD player that constantly jammed. Steering wheel controls are a little hit and miss sometimes but otherwise all good.
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Feb 26, 2022 03:37
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My ‘19 RAV4 went to a proprietary stereo head which is part of what made it so frustrating when Toyota couldn’t decide if they were going to retroactively support Android Auto for the model year or not. Eventually they didn’t do I switched to iPhone which was ultimately fine. My mom has an Outback and they ditched even more buttons in favor of screens, and so much poo poo is a couple of menus deep. I’d hate that if I had to drive it all the time.
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I may be irredeemably weird, but I've liked the BMW iDrive system the few hours I've spent with it as a passenger.
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Feb 26, 2022 03:54
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Computer viking posted:I may be irredeemably weird, but I've liked the BMW iDrive system the few hours I've spent with it as a passenger. Not having to reach up and mess with a drat touchscreen is extremely awesome
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Feb 26, 2022 04:04
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Yeah I got a BMW rental recently (turns out fwd BMWs are the cheapest rentals in Detroit) and while some things annoyed me (skipping tracks on Bluetooth took 2 button presses?) the little nav wheel was great compared to a touchscreen.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Yeah I got a BMW rental recently (turns out fwd BMWs are the cheapest rentals in Detroit) and while some things annoyed me (skipping tracks on Bluetooth took 2 button presses?) the little nav wheel was great compared to a touchscreen. are you really surprised that strange furrin cars are the cheapest in Detroit
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Feb 26, 2022 04:18
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I’m a truly baffling decision, my old man’s Jeep Gladiator can do car play but does it in a windowed mode for Christ knows what reason.
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Warbird posted:I’m a truly baffling decision, my old man’s Jeep Gladiator can do car play but does it in a windowed mode for Christ knows what reason. No I think you’re fine, it’s your dad’s car that’s baffling. I presume he didn’t know that when he bought it.
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Arivia posted:No I think you’re fine, it’s your dad’s car that’s baffling. I presume he didn’t know that when he bought it. The Nissan integration with Android has been solid in the recent Nissans I've driven. Even automatically launches VLC on my phone and picks up on the last track I was playing.
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George RR Fartin posted:....you don't happen to have a github or something you might share with the rest of the class? (No pressure if you don't - I know I've done projects where the end product was fine but essentially irreproducible, or any one of a million other reasons you might not wish to make it public). Here it is. It's very simple. https://github.com/sauhir/twit To use it you need to get API tokens from https://developer.twitter.com/ Then copy config.js.example to config.js and fill the details. Run "node app.js" and you will get instructions for the command line parameters. Oh and you need to run "npm install" first to install the dependencies.
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lobsterminator posted:Here it is. It's very simple. Thank you sir!
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 Finally, the perfect Twitter client!  I gotta say, getting Wifi to play nice on Windows 98 is a nightmare. The software is rear end (have to us McAfee Wireless Security to even connect easily), and Windows can't grab a proper IP address half the time. Though that latter part might be because I'm connecting to an AP router, and sometimes it tries to pull a subnet IP address instead of a regular one. Kazy has a new favorite as of 23:56 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Feb 28, 2022 23:53
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Jay Foreman is extremely British and horny for maps/city planning, but also apparently does a pretty good Techmoan impression. Fellow puts more effort into ads than some do in the actual content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUjnEZcp68&t=491s
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Any good YouTube things about mimeograph machines?
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There's a BBS version of wordle optimized for the C64. Being a BBS it should work with any terminal, but I guess the character sets assume PETSCII. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDlWmLjZ4vY
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Finally dug out my old 1541, that was stored in a cold chicken house for over a decade, then on my cold veranda for... maybe a decade. Opened it up to do a cursory bug cum mouse piss check and it seemed pretty clean - no rust or anything either! So now it can sit in my heated spare room for a decade or so! 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Finally dug out my old 1541, that was stored in a cold chicken house for over a decade, then on my cold veranda for... maybe a decade. Opened it up to do a cursory bug cum mouse piss check and it seemed pretty clean - no rust or anything either! The 1541 is a beast. Has its own built in power supply and weighs more than the actual computer. The 1541-II upgrade got a lot smaller and changed to an external power brick. And the interesting thing about the C64 disk drives is that they have the same CPU as the C64 as a disk controller. And they were still the slowest drives in the market!
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lobsterminator posted:The 1541 is a beast. Has its own built in power supply and weighs more than the actual computer. Nah. Drive fast. Port slow.
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It may have been a joke but I remember a test that showed diskette without turbo and tape have the same load times. Anyway back to the boxes'o'stuff on the veranda. Found a hand-held "football" game too, the kind with only red LEDs that represent...something. No-one ever knew how to play it because it's American football. I wonder if it makes sense to people who know the rules.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It may have been a joke but I remember a test that showed diskette without turbo and tape have the same load times. Players or the ball, most likely.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It may have been a joke but I remember a test that showed diskette without turbo and tape have the same load times. https://handheldmuseum.com/Manuals/index.html
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Hell yeah headed to the lan party
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Forgot the gaffer tape to affix himself to the ceiling.
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